GoBeam Inc.
GoBeam Inc. rolled out its GoBeam Dashboard, a dashboard user interface that enables customers to easily manage business communication services from a browser-based console. The service is accessible through the GoBeam Web site and requires no software to run. The GoBeam Dashboard includes several features that allow users to manage communications while traveling. www.gobeam.com.
Nokia Networks
Nokia launched four new phone models for the Americas market. The Nokia 3360 and the Nokia 3320 are designed for TDMA standards and are equipped with WAP browsers. The Nokia 3285 and the Nokia 3280 are designed for CDMA standards. The phones should be available during the second and third quarter of this year. www.nokia.com.
BeVocal Inc.
BeVocal Inc. introduced the BeVocal Total Messaging Solution for telecommunications companies and enterprises. The solution includes the BeVocal Voice Dialer, BeVocal E-mail, BeVocal Address Book, BeVocal Notification and BeVocal Authentication for secure access. Qwest Communications International Inc. announced it has chosen BeVocal’s Voice Dialer and Address Book application for its wireless customers. “BeVocal’s platform supports the seamless integration of messaging applications with voice portal applications,” said Mikael Berner, the company’s co-founder and chief executive officer. “It’s integrated, value-added services like these which help carriers attract and retain customers, while helping businesses increase productivity.” (408) 907-3200.
Openwave Systems Inc.
Openwave Systems Inc. announced the availability of its end-to-end set of location services for communication service providers, which will use SignalSoft’s Location Manager, local.info products and the Openwave Location Service Broker. “Location-aware services promise to be one of the key catalysts of the wireless Internet,” said Michel Quazza, vice president of product management for Openwave. OpenWave also introduced its fifth generation of the Openwave Mobile Access Gateway. In conjunction with the enhanced Openwave Mobile Browser, the product will enable communications service providers to increase usability and create a richer user experience. The new version of the gateway uses WAP Push, allowing users to receive time-sensitive information. “Our ongoing commitment to the evolution of the Mobile Access Gateway will play an integral role in making the wireless Internet a mainstream medium,” commented Quazza. www.openwave.com.
Agilent Technologies Inc.
Agilent Technologies announced new capabilities for its commercial test solution for high-volume manufacturing of next-generation, Internet-enabled phones. “Agilent’s enhanced solution, based on our industry-leading 8960 Series 10 manufacturing test set, provides the critical measurements that manufacturers need to get to market early with next-generation phones and begin generating revenue,” explained Al Schmidt, vice president of the company’s RF communications product unit. The cdma2000 mobile test application now offers full cdma2000 call-processing and receiver frame-error-rate measurements. Also, new software simplifies testing by providing a familiar interface and capabilities for developing and launching customized test plans on a Windows-based computer. The company said other enhancements make the test application faster, more cost-effective, and ready for emergence into third-generation. www.agilent.com/find/ 8960support.
LightSurf Technologies
LightSurf Technologies announced the availability of its MultiMedia Messaging Services (MMS)-enabled visual communication platform. The solution integrates with existing short message service infrastructures and is designed for second- and third-generation wireless networks, standard wireline and broadband networks. MMS enables mobile users to transmit messages containing text, graphics, photographic images and audio and video clips between mobile devices via WAP-enabled devices. www.lightsurf.com.
Hybrid Networks Inc.
Hybrid Networks Inc. introduced the ThruWAVE Wireless Broadband Router, a single-carrier, multiple-modulation router that enables fixed broadband wireless service providers to increase their customer capacity and coverage by offering near-line-of-sight capabilities. “We’re continuing to develop equipment that enables our customers to deploy reliable, secure, large-scale networks and quickly increase their subscriber bases by dramatically improving system capacity and coverage,” said Michael D. Greenbaum, the company’s president and chief executive officer. The ThruWAVE router system will be available by the middle of this year, said Hybrid.
Audiovox
Audiovox Communications Corp. announced it will use cdma2000 1xRTT for two wireless handsets, the CDM-9150 and the CDM-8150 phones. According to Audiovox, the new phones, used over the new systems, will increase speed and bandwidth of next-generation networks and enhance data, video and text transmission and reception. “The transition to 3G wireless communication depends on the collective abilities of carriers and manufacturers to implement new technology,” said Philip Christopher, president and chief executive officer of Audiovox. “As U.S. wireless carriers begin to launch 1x technology systems, our goal is to be positioned to provide them with high-quality, user-friendly 1x handsets in the same way that we met carriers’ product needs as they made the change from analog to digital networks.” Audiovox plans to officially introduce its handsets in the third quarter of this year. www.audiovox.com.
G-Telwireless
G-Telwireless said it has successfully tested its MyPhone-Shield leather cellular phone case, which has an antenna cap designed to protect and shield wireless phone users from radiation emitted from analog and digital cellular phones. The company plans to make the product available to retail locations and cyber retail locations nationwide. Specific absorption rates for phones were decreased more than 90 percent in two tests. www.g-telwireless.com
AirNet Communications
AirNet Communications Corp. recently introduced its GSM 850 Base Station System that the company said will allow AMPS, TDMA and other technology operators to easily migrate to 2.5 and 3G services. The new base station, which is based on AirNet’s AdaptaCell base station and its AirSite Backhaul Free base station, will provide the company with an expanded target market that includes virtually all cellular operators worldwide. www.airnetcom.com.
